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Grappling with Authorship and Acceptance in the Pop Art of Roger Brown
A pair of exhibitions at Kavi Gupta gallery places the artist's paintings and sculptures in dialogue with arrangements of objects from his personal collections.
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Meandering Through MASS MoCA’s Vast Expansion
On May 28, Building 6, a three-story structure that was renovated by architecture firm Bruner/Cott, opened on the museum's industrial campus and doubled its gallery footprint.
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A 19th-Century Illustrated Guide to Bizarre British Games, Including Hot Cockles and Hoodman’s Blind
In 1801, British writer and engraver Joseph Strutt published a compendium of bizarre medieval pastimes.
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From Beaded Portraiture to Brainwave Drawings, Favorites from Greenpoint Open Studios
The long trek through Greenpoint Open Studios, which took place June 3 and 4, offered some formally innovative work.
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Watch Films by Local Black, Queer Artists at the Brooklyn Museum
A monthlong series of screenings, beginning Thursday, June 8, features short films by young, black, queer, female-identified, and gender-nonconforming artists based in Brooklyn.
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Miley Cyrus and Her Minstrel Show
Miley Cyrus does not lend credibility to hip-hop, nor can she take it away.
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From a Beirut Lit Journal to a Kim Kardashian Tabloid, Highlights from BABZ Fair 2017
In a new space for its fifth edition, the art book and zine fair renewed its focus on independent publishers and had a strong community ethos.
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After a Dakota Ceremony, Dismantling of Controversial Sculpture Begins in Minneapolis
On Friday, Dakota elders led a ceremony that included a blessing for construction workers who then started to take apart Sam Durant's controversial installation "Scaffold."
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Maya Deren’s Short Films from the 1940s and ’50s Screen at the Norton Simon Museum
On June 9, the museum will host a screening of six of Maya Deren's short films that were milestones in the history of avant-garde cinema.
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Perpetuating the Idea that Modernism Triumphed by Appropriating “Tribal” Art
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
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An Artist Serves Up Food for Thought About Excessive Consumption
Raúl Ortega Ayala's new exhibition at Proyectos Monclova includes a buffet based on a historical image of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center and a model of the Tower of Babel sculpted out of lard.
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents A Non-Objective Couple, with Works by Sonia Gechtoff and James Kelly
Gechtoff and Kelly were key members of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism.